Sweat!: The Decathalon Game
Platform: Atari 2600
Region: Prototype (USA)
Media: Cartridge
Controller: Joystick
Genre: Sports - Competitive Events
Gametype: Undefined
Release Year: 1983
Developer: Starpath
Publisher: Unpublished
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Sweat! was to be Starpath's version of Activision's Decathlon for the Supercharger.  Given the fact that the Supercharger allowed for more memory and larger games, Sweat! probably would have been an amazing game had it been completed.  Of course this never happened as the video game market was crumbling rapidly and people weren't spending money on regular video games, much less games that required special hardware.  It was around this time that the financially troubled Starpath merged with Epyx.  Most of Starpath's programmers transferred over to Epyx and used Sweat!'s game concept to create Summer Games.

Although Sweat! is the basis for Summer Games, little if any code from Sweat! was used.  According to Sweat! programmer Scott Nelson:

"Actually, there's probably more of Party Mix in Summer Games than Sweat!.  Sweat! never got much beyond the concept stage."

There are three known prototypes for Sweat, each at a different stage of completion.  The original prototype consisted only of the running events (Hurdles, 100 Meters, and 400 Meters), this version is the most widely known of the three prototypes.  Some time later, a second prototype was discovered which only consisted of the Shot Put event and didn't contain the event selection menus from the first prototype.  This has lead some people to speculate that this prototype was actually just a separate load that was meant to be called from the original prototype (although this currently doesn't happen).  Recently a third prototype was discovered that appears to not only have a title screen, but a more complete event selection menu.  Unfortunately this prototype doesn't appear to have any playable events, as it makes calls to loads that don't exist. 

http://www.atariprotos.com/2600/software/sweat/sweat.htm
